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GXKIKINGS m B'EE CULTD'R'E- 



Cycr. 



bleached in the sun. In our opinion nothing 

 r/i,/i be nicer for eonib honey tlian the bleached 

 wax tbiin<lation, and we have ffi'eat hopes that 

 by its aid we may eventually furnish b/eautiful 

 coTnl) honev at son^ethiu;; like the price of cx- 

 f racted. Mr. Q. is ri,2;ht in saying that we often 

 have nice coni]> honey spoiled by a ]iiece of old 

 tough comb that lias iTeen used as a guide, and 

 it is just here that we are going to profift, for 

 the foundations make the most beautiful, white, 

 delicate guides that can be imagined, and ftre 

 very easily fastened in the lx>xes. We feel sor- 

 ry til at Mr. Q's article was allowed to appear 

 in print, before being submitted to some one 

 who had really made a practical test of the ar- 

 titical ('omb for box honey. 



FraEN'D NOVICE :— A severe frost on the '22ikT of 

 .Vug. put a stop to onr honey business. Up to that 

 lime we hail taken about 4000 lbs. from the r,0 stocks 

 we had in the spring, and W3 now have GO, with hon- 

 ey enongh to winter them, I think. Have had no of- 

 ler for my crop, would take about Uc., rtis niostly 

 Wliite clover, and very nice. 



Have iu<t ^I'ttlcd with KarnnTCister & Co. of Chicajro 

 for navt of lasc year's crop ; tliey dissolved partnersiiip 

 with l)iit little t') i^ay their debts, ami I tinall}' settled 

 with their? ftn- ^'ic. or. tlve dollar, being a loss to nie of 

 over SlOir.OO. Kernberger (one of tlie Co.,) still does 

 bii-iiness at the old stand, and advertises in the A. B. 

 J. for more honev. 1 hope he will not tlnd n>any so 

 grrecn as J. L. W'olvkmden, of Adam?, Wis. 



We give the above, not with a wisli to in- 

 jure any one who does ijusiness honestly, but to 

 \yarn those of our readers v/ho have honey to 

 sell, against falling into the same trap that 

 friend W. did. Be sure your honey, — -if not 

 sold at home, — goes to a responsible party. 



A correspondent sends the following-: 



A MINE OK SWEETNESS. 



Oenerally when we hear of rich strikes it is m the 

 g^old or silver line, but this time it turns out to be hon- 

 ey, pure and sweet. A few days since, as the work- 

 nten on the tunnel at Cajon Pass were hauling over 

 some roclis they came across a deposit of honey, and 

 taking a pole and running it into the mountiiin. were 

 suriirised to fimfno bottom. They got a long pole 

 .'»on7e twenty feet in length, and were unable to touch 

 bottom with that. ITpon withdrawing the i)ole tlie 

 lioiiey began to run out, and soon tubs, buckets, and 

 two barrels were lillcd, and still it flowed. Some par- 

 ties came into town and loaded up with barrels, nnd 

 proi>ose to make a business of it. Tlir-y put in a charge 

 of powder and blew otT a portion of the rock, which 

 disclosed tons upon tons of honey. Oar informant 

 jrtates that after exploring it from below to wher(> tlie 

 l)ces were found to enter, it was found to i>e one-fouvth 

 of a mile, and in his opinion the whole cavity is tilled 

 with honey. He estimates over one hundreil tons in 

 night, and'believes that one thousami tons would not 

 be an unfair estimate. This immense ileposit cannot 

 be equalled by any ever found. Ac(Mrilii>g t'l the 

 ;0)ove estimate it would take every l>arre! and hogs- 

 head in San Bernardino to hold it. 



Ho I for California. 'Tis said its fruits li\ck 

 flavor, its stories certainly don't. 



Gleanings:— I wrote you in Aug. that 1 had one 

 swarm in which much of the brood died aljour ihe 

 time it should have been sealeii. The <)ueen wa-^ old. 

 Since then they have vaiscl a young l^ueen. Not one 

 cell containingd'-ad lirood is to be found. Have never 

 seen (Simon Pure) foul brood, but tear it. Is thci'e 

 any danger of introducing it with t^ueens ? 



OCCASHI.N'ALLV. 



We have hat! no experience with foul brood, 

 and hope to be exempt. We certainly would 

 not like Queens sent from an Apiary in which 

 it prevailed. 



GLEANiKds:— Our Tf) colonies have increased 10 175 



sold lb of them— extracted only 2000 Ihs. honey. 



Will get as much more this fall, if the wild .\ster is 



Hot dried up too much. Bees have gathered enough 



at all times this year to keep up breeding. We will' 

 have our 100 colonies shipped from Indianapolis here- 

 for winter, in tlias moDtb. They have done ]>oorly up- 

 there, too n?uch rain. BAiiN'r\s & lli.rroN. 



Edgefield Junction, Tenn., f?ept. 0th, '7.>. 



Does change of locality for winteriryg, or for 

 short tim-es (luring heavy yield's of honej', real- 

 ly pay ? Will not those v;'ho liavehad experi- 

 ence report V 



O'ur bees comjm'eiiced gathering honey Aug. !)tli, and 

 contiiiue to bring it in rapidly ; 7>j- lbs. from one hive 

 i^ our best yield per day so far. We con»m«nced ex- 

 tracting Aug. -iOth, took '2>i 41 gal. bWs., ami have a'-- 

 nmch more readv. and we'll go for rt in a few minutes,. 

 T. E. Haatkins & Bko., New Frankfort, Mo, 



P. P.— 57 hives and one bos are our num>ber: 



Mr. a. I. ROOT, Dear Sir:— Yoiir sanTple cf honev 

 rec'd. It does not ecjual the (luality of honey raised' 

 here. As 1 am the only one in the vi-cihity using' an 

 extractor, I liave to fufiiisb a (irst quality of honev in 

 order to sell. I a.m a beginner in bee-keeping. I re- 

 ceived the lith day of May from' l>a<l:ai>t & Son, 4 col- 

 onies of Italians, ;? of theni in good order, the O'ther so 

 weak that I rec'd but little help in builrVrng up my 

 nun>l)er. I n-ow have 11 ^ood colonie.s, tbey have 

 made abwit loO lbs. like the sample I semi you. Shall 

 have from two to three hundred ll)s. of fall honey if 

 the frost holds off as late as it usually iToes. VVe had 

 no fruit blossoms, so' nty bees niade no honey nnli' 

 white clover came into bloom. I have taken no honey 

 from the lower story. I had also tlie inconvenisncc 

 oi \ta,vm^ to Xise tibxt different sizc^ uf jvuiree in onk 

 hioc as well as not having a Mrs. O; to help. I would 

 like to sec a Katie Grimm or any other Katie who' 

 could sling out a barrel of siwh honey as mfne in one 

 day. 1 wouUi try hard to convince h'cr that Mrs. 

 Katie Oliver would be a much prettier nam-e for her. 

 C'liAS. Oi.iVEii, spring. Pa.. Sept. 13th. ''"•. 



We can thoroiTghly understand your trials 

 with different sizes of frame. It's so provo- 

 king after making all our plans for building 

 up a nice colony, to find the fran>es wont go 

 where we want them to. 



We are sure that somewliere iii the wide 

 world there must be many Katies-, if one were 

 only fortunate enough to find them. TMamonds 

 in the rough, perhaps, close by us. You know 

 about "entertijining angels unawares." 



We have had a good honey eeason hwo. I liave ta- 

 ken from 8 stocksand their swarms, over ISX) lb?, of 

 honey. Bees all black. Have received tliis fall no 

 less than 7 tested Italian (Jueens. and so far have only 

 succeeded in introrlucing- 3. I followed the plan of 

 preventing swarming as far as possible until the hon- 

 ey season was over, but shall not do so again. Have- 

 had fearful work, since the middle of August. witU 

 roboing ;.found it impossible to open a hive. I have 

 now 14 stocks in fair order, but not so gooil as they 

 would have been, could I have foreseen tint the sea- 

 son would close by the middle of August. It was the 

 same last year, biit was then salrl to'be exceptional. 

 I have had bees for only 2 vears, but so far have been 

 rather fortunate. S. C. Be'n'sett. 



Smith Lake, Minn., Sept. 11th, ".J. 



My honey harvest so far. has been fair, and if I d>> 

 as well the remainder of this month as in years past, I 

 shall be well satisfied. I have a little over 700 lbs. of 

 extracted honey, taken mostly from tliree hives. 

 About the l.'ith of Aug.. I extracted fro\n one hive 47 

 lbs., and in four days extra(;ted from same hive 4 1 'j 

 lbs. The other two ditl almost as well, the hive is a 

 one storv with 20 frames. It was the finest as well as 

 whitest honey I ever saw. It was gathered principal- 

 Iv from the blue Verv;jin which grows here on the 

 riv(!r bottoms in great abumlancc. The remainder of 

 my hives f have worked for box honev, liave taken 

 alreadv over 100 lbs. from several of them, and they 

 are filling np linely again— think I will p-et some of 

 them up to 300 lbs. Kept them from swarming most- 

 ly, having only two swarms more than I commenced 

 with last spring. 



Now I wish to goss/p a little about a lx;e house. It 

 is a little singular that so many just now. happen to 

 have an idea of a bee house. ! once thought I would 

 not have one if it were given to me, and I would not. 

 like mo.'^t I have seen. ■ My nearest neighbor has one— 

 1 know it is for bees, for Tca:i see ihrouyh ihe cracks- 



